kennedy hartsfield

Praise God in all you do. Boiler Up

[Shooter McGavin @ShooterMcGavin]

*Applies for Masters tickets*

The Masters:

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.

[Alexi Lalas @AlexiLalas]

‘Sup.

[Shooter McGavin @ShooterMcGavin]

This Masters commercial absolutely nailed it

[Not the Bee @Not_the_Bee]

Is there anything more Beyond Parody than a No Kings protest in the UK?

[Purdue Men's Basketball @BoilerBall]

Whatever it takes tomorrow.

[Peter Burns @PeterBurnsESPN]

Wild times

A teacher? Taxed Income
A police officer? Taxed Income
Health Care Worker? Taxed Income

3rd string cornerback? Tax free $$$

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Hey @grok can you find a single article ever written by any sports media member attacking a team for accepting a congratulatory call on a title from a Democrat president? Or a single article criticizing a champion team for visiting the White House when a Democrat is in office?

[Grok @grok]

No, ClayTravis. Extensive searches of sports media (ESPN, Sports Illustrated, Fox Sports, etc.) turn up zero articles criticizing any champion team for accepting a congratulatory call or White House visit from Obama, Clinton, or Biden. Those were standard, positive or neutral events. The pattern of scrutiny for Republican presidents doesn't have a Democratic counterpart.

[Steve Byrne @stevebyrnelive]

We live in a country where you can win Gold for China and end up on the cover of Time magazine but win Gold for US and have your own press turn on you.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The New York Times is utterly disgusting

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

No, it’s a crime

This is delusional

[NBC Olympics & Paralympics @NBCOlympics]

JACK HUGHES DELIVERS AMERICA'S GOLDEN MOMENT IN OVERTIME.

[Meg ✦ @Flicky0ps]

Remember this when a celebrity tires to tell you how to vote.

[NHL @NHL]

Celebrini cinema 😮‍💨

Czechia vs. Canada is LIVE at the #MilanoCortina2026 #WinterOlympics on @peacock, @USANetwork, @cbcsports, & @cbcgem!

(🎨: @nba_paint)

[kennedy hartsfield @khartsfi7]

@CoachWilk51 Get it! Well done on the progress!

[Christian Collins @CollinsforTX]

Chicago's vaccine mandate in 2022:

"You have to have a photo ID to accompany that vaccination card."

Countless other liberal cities had similar mandates.

Yet Democrats claim voter ID is suppression.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

BREAKING: Wyoming House just voted in favor of a bill that would impose harsher penalties for sexual crimes against children.

Every single Democrat voted against it.

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

They're still not listening 😂

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Well said